The Album of the World Emperor: Trans-Imperial Collecting at the Ottoman Court

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Emine Fetvaci, an associate professor of Islamic Art at Boston University, will present a lecture entitled "The Album of the World Emperor: Trans-Imperial Collecting at the Ottoman Court" as part of the Department of the History of Art's Graduate Student Lecture Series. This talk will examine an early-seventeenth century album made for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-1617), consisting of Ottoman and Persian calligraphy, paintings, and drawings as well as European prints. The album's different treatment of Persian and European models and artworks will be considered in light of broader developments in Ottoman art and culture during the early seventeenth century. The event is co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute.